I had the chance to see Aneesh Chopra speak at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last Wednesday, August 18th. Chopra is the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer and officially works in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. You know all that healthcare information technology stuff you have been hearing about from […]

Any day of the week you can walk into a pharmacy unsupervised and buy a test kit to find out if you’re ovulating so you can undertake family planning activities. You can buy home testing kits to screen for high cholesterol, illicit drug use, even presence of the HIV virus. You can also pony up […]

Recently a new study on medical errors was published by the Society of Actuaries, Health Division (bet they’re fun at a party). For those of you who don’t know what an actuary is, it is basically the person at an insurance company who applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess and forecast risk in the […]

In my last post I talked about robots and other technologies used for remote monitoring of patients who are seeking to lose weight or achieve other healthcare goals. One of the biggest challenges with remote monitoring systems, particularly as it relates to consistently and frequently monitoring people with chronic illness, such as heart or …

For those of you not quite old enough to remember it (or who aren’t movie buffs), that was a quote from HAL the robot in 2001 Space Odyssey. HAL is a robotic/computer system that communicates with the crew, expressing emotions both positive and negative. In a story that ran July 20, 2010 in the Wall […]

For those of you not quite old enough to remember it (or who aren’t movie buffs), that was a quote from HAL the robot in 2001 Space Odyssey. HAL is a robotic/computer system that communicates with the crew, expressing emotions both positive and negative. In a story that ran July 20, 2010 in the Wall […]

For those of you not quite old enough to remember it (or who aren’t movie buffs), that was a quote from HAL the robot in 2001 Space Odyssey. HAL is a robotic/computer system that communicates with the crew, expressing emotions both positive and negative. In a story that ran July 20, 2010 in the Wall […]

For those of you not quite old enough to remember it (or who aren’t movie buffs), that was a quote from HAL the robot in 2001 Space Odyssey. HAL is a robotic/computer system that communicates with the crew, expressing emotions both positive and negative. In a story that ran July 20, 2010 in the Wall […]

For those of you not quite old enough to remember it (or who aren’t movie buffs), that was a quote from HAL the robot in 2001 Space Odyssey. HAL is a robotic/computer system that communicates with the crew, expressing emotions both positive and negative. In a story that ran July 20, 2010 in the Wall […]

A quick antidote to the Baconator post: Tim Marklein at Weber Shandwick sent me an article about a cool competition now underway in which GE, the USDA and Michelle Obama have created a challenge to motivate American entrepreneurs, software developers, the public, and students to create an on-line game or tool that can use “fun” […]

About Lisa

Lisa Suennen is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is also co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.